Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1945–)

Physicist and philosopher best known for his 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning
book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.1 He
is currently a professor of cognitive science and computer science at Indiana
University, Bloomington, and has particular interests in themes of the mind,
consciousness, self-reference, translation, and mathematical games. He is
the son of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter.